Auto-tips for obscured components

[efx]

It would be fantastic if you could provide a reasonably generic tool to support automatically displaying a tooltip-style popup over a component when part of the component is obscured due to layout, which shows the full component when mouse is over the obscured part of it.

An example of this common in many UIs including most IDEs is for JTree cells, e.g. in IntelliJ:

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Obvious candidates are tree cell and list cell renderers, table cell renderers and JComboBox editor components.

I'm not sure if it would be possible to do this "unobtrusively", i.e. without having to subclass the tree/table/combobox, so e.g. you could just call static methods to install support...

AutoObscureTipSupport.install(myJTree);
AutoObscureTipSupport.install(myComboBox);

I realise it's quite a tall order!

Thanks

[Walter Laan]

Have you tried https://datatips.dev.java.net/?

[JIDE Support]

Thanks Walter. That's what I would suggest too. I tried it before. It is not as good as the one in intellij but should be good enough to use.

[efx]

Cool, almost exactly what I was looking for (except no support for JComboBox). I'll see if I can tweak it for combo boxes.

Thanks